Help!Where do TMPGE, VCDEASY and Virtuadub store TEMP files?

[hartzpad]

Last night I made a few VCD's following the newbie DIVX to VCD. I have all of my programs on my C: drive and all of my media on my D: drive. Well later last night I checked and I had lost 16 gigs of hard drive space on my C: drive. What could it be? I can't find any files. How can I find them? I saved all of my projects and VCD's on my D: drive, so this is just weird. Can someone suggest how I find what is taking up so much space? I've checked all the TEMP folders I can find, but is there a way to search by size in the C: drive? I had 19 gigs free, and after burning some VCD's, I only have 3 gigs left. Thanks for any suggestions, I'm learning a ton!

[hartzpad]

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[hartzpad]

hello? Hopefully it's not all newbies in the newbie forum, otherwise there's no point in asking a question.

[Baldrick]

Use the explorer search and search for new files or large files, start->search->files. Read the windows manual if you dont know how to use the search.

[kayfam]

hartzpad,
You might want to run checkdisk on that volume at boot time. Sounds to me that something is screwed up in your partition table and your getting an erroneous disc space message. You might also want to run disc cleanup to clean up any other garbage and defrag afterwards. If your drive is heavily fragmented as I suspect, that can also cause Windows to incorrectly report available disc space. In the future I suggest creating a temp folder on your other drive and direct all your programs to use this instead.

[hartzpad]

Kayfam, thank you very much. I'll try that out. It seems logical that the drive is just reporting the free space incorrectly, as I can't find any files when I search my drive that could be taking up that much space. Thanks man for responding.